A few changes:

- Green shards will no longer take people into a separate area to fight to the death. Instead, someone stabbed with a green shard will be banished for about 30 seconds.

- Champions can now challenge each other to try to win more bones. The syntax is the same as the arena CHALLENGE <player> and then ACCEPT. This can be done anywhere other than an arena (including the staging grounds). Accepting a challenge will take the two of you to an instance similar to the previous green shard instance where you can battle it out. More champion bones than normal are available for the winner. The bones and the loser's corpse will follow the winner out of the instance (the corpse so you can take the bone from that if applicable).

- To encourage the acceptance of challenges, if a player does not accept three challenges spread at least 24 hours apart from the same player, the challenging player will get a bone and the avoiding player will lose champion status. This counter can be reset by challenging the player who has challenged you previously.

Enjoy

-- Dec

Penned by my hand on the 21st of Ultio, in the year 148 AM.